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RFC 1123 - 2.5 GENERAL APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY

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### 2.5 GENERAL APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY

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    User interfaces:                               |          | | | | | |
      Allow host name to begin with digit          |2.1       |x| | | | |
      Host names of up to 635 characters           |2.1       |x| | | | |
      Host names of up to 255 characters           |2.1       | |x| | | |
      Support dotted-decimal host numbers          |2.1       | |x| | | |
      Check syntactically for dotted-dec first     |2.1       | |x| | | |
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    Map domain names per Section 6.1               |2.2       |x| | | | |
    Cope with soft DNS errors                      |2.2       |x| | | | |
       Reasonable interval between retries         |2.2       |x| | | | |
       Allow for long outages                      |2.2       |x| | | | |
    Expect WKS records to be available             |2.2       | | | |x| |
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    Try multiple addr's for remote multihomed host |2.3       | |x| | | |
    UDP reply src addr is specific dest of request |2.3       | |x| | | |
    Use same IP addr for related TCP connections   |2.3       | |x| | | |
    Specify appropriate TOS values                 |2.4       |x| | | | |
      TOS values configurable                      |2.4       |x| | | | |
      Unused TOS bits zero                         |2.4       |x| | | | |
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RFC 1123 - 2.5 GENERAL APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY